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Loss defines her past, danger her future...in between stands Adam...mysterious, beautiful, and so out of her league. Will his secret keep them apart, or will they learn how to trick fate? Dive into your new favorite angel series! Falling in love with a paranormal creature isn’t a good idea for 18-year-old Claire. Having just adjusted to a new high school after her parents’ death, she can’t afford to be sidetracked by complications of any kind - no matter how intriguing. But fate has different plans for her....

Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses. Raised among the Wardens - a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting demons and keeping humanity safe - Layla tries to fit in, but that means hiding her own dark side from those she loves the most.

On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a party, carrying evidence that may finally turn the tide of the blood feud plaguing Twist Creek: Photos that prove the county’s Sheriff Davies was responsible for the so-called “accident” that injured his dad, killed others, and crushed their grassroots efforts to unseat him. The feud began a hundred years ago when Miles’s great-great-grandfather, Saint Abernathy, incited a miners’ rebellion that ended with a public execution at the hands of law enforcement.

When Auto mechanic Sawyer Taft's estranged grandmother offers her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season, Sawyer's first instinct is to run a mile. But then she realizes her grandmother's offer might mean solving the biggest mystery of her life - her father's identity. So she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses and even bigger egos. However, Sawyer doesn't expect to find a group of fellow debutantes with scandalous, dangerous secrets of their own.

Rufus Holt is having the worst night of his life. It begins with the reappearance of his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian - the guy who stomped his heart out like a spent cigarette. Just as Rufus is getting ready to move on, Sebastian turns up out of the blue, saying they need to "talk." Things couldn’t get worse, right? Then Rufus gets a call from his sister April, begging for help. He and Sebastian find her, drenched in blood and holding a knife beside the dead body of her boyfriend, Fox Whitney. April swears she didn’t kill Fox. Rufus knows her too well to believe she’s telling him the whole truth, but April has something he needs. Her price is his help.

Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty 10-year-old stepsister, Piper.

Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze, and rich kids who got bored. Friendly cannibals, impossible slashers, and the dead who don’t stay dead…. A museum curator who despises “diasporic inaccuracies.” A sweet girl and her diary of happy thoughts. An old house that just wants friends forever…. These stories are filled with ancient terrors and modern villains, but go ahead, go into the basement, step onto the old plantation, and open the magician’s mystery box because this time, the white guy dies first.

When Harper Fontaine is framed for a crime she didn’t commit, her father uproots her from her life in New York City to move into his mansion in wealthy Newport, Rhode Island. It doesn’t take long before Harper is invited to join the town’s elite secret society, the Order of Six. But membership has a price: first, she must prove herself by surviving the Order’s trials. Harper tries to keep her head down, but in a place like Newport, staying out means standing out.

Ali Bell and Cole Holland's crew of zombie slayers thought they'd won the war against Anima Industries, the evil company responsible for capturing and experimenting on zombies in an effort to discover the secret to immortality. In the last epic clash, the slayers lost many of their crew and closest friends. But Frosty, the ice man himself, has not recovered from one casualty in particular - the love of his life, Kat Parker.

When Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington.

In Curiosity: Xane Volume 12, Xane, a Synth programmed to understand human emotions, faces one of her most complex challenges yet. Her journey begins with a cryptic message from her old friend, Tara, who has been wrongfully accused of stealing from the golf shop where she works. Despite overwhelming evidence—including surveillance footage and Tara’s own fingerprints on the safe—Xane knows her friend is innocent.

Jade Foster just moved to a new city with her mother and step-dad in the middle of her senior year. She doesn’t know anyone. She has a midterm on Monday. And her house is haunted. Sean Clayton died at 18 a little over 50 years ago. He needs Jade’s help to move on, but now that he’s met her, he doesn’t want to leave her. At first, it’s frustrating. High school is hard enough without a ghost everywhere you go. To make matters worse, Sean’s connection to Jade exposes her to dark forces from the afterlife.

As Xane navigates the tension within the band, she turns to the Analyst for guidance. Through introspective conversations, Xane learns that envy is often a reflection of the envier's own insecurities and perceived shortcomings. With this understanding, Xane strives to set emotional boundaries and protect her sense of self-worth. The narrative also explores the impact of envy on relationships, particularly between Shari and Russ. As the band prepares for a high-stakes New Year's Eve performance, they face eerie occurrences that test their resilience and unity.

After their world-famous actor mother disappeared under mysterious circumstances, Manon and Thaïs left their remote Mediterranean island home — sent away by their pharma-tech tycoon father. Opposites in every way, the sisters drifted apart in their grief. Yet their mother's unfinished story still haunts them both, and they can't put to rest the possibility that she is still alive.

Author Mark White takes listeners on an emotional journey with Xane as she explores the concept of joy. Reflecting on her past experiences with fear, anger, sadness, shame, and contempt, Xane realizes she is ready to embrace joy. Guided by the Analyst, Xane learns that joy is not just about happiness but a deeper state of being—an open-hearted embrace of life and a sense of peace and connection.

Standing on the highest point of Moore Island was the library. A converted fort from the civil war, its neglect has led to a dangerous decay. Almost forgotten, it has suddenly become the focus of the towns council. They want to demolish the library and build a mall and the mafia has even more ambitious plans. Only a few oppose the renovation and the old library seems destined for destruction. But after a tragic car accident involving a beloved teacher, one accident after another befalls the little island.

Südstaatenglamour, Intrigen und Spannung vom Feinsten von Bestsellerautorin Jennifer Lynn Barnes. Seit Sawyers Geburt vor achtzehn Jahren sind sie und ihre Mom sehr gut ohne ihre reiche Südstaatenfamilie ausgekommen. Doch als Sawyers Großmutter plötzlich vor ihr steht und ihr eine halbe Million Dollar bietet, wenn sie an der diesjährigen Debütantinnensaison teilnimmt, kann sie nicht ablehnen. Das ist ihre Chance, endlich herauszufinden, wer ihr Vater ist! Und schon befindet sich Sawyer mitten in einer Welt voller Geld, Perlenschmuck und Intrigen.

In the tradition of Memento and Inception comes a thrilling and scary young adult audiobook about blurred reality where characters in a story find that a deadly and horrifying world exists in the space between the written lines. Seventeen-year-old Emma Lindsay has problems: a head full of metal, no parents, a crazy artist for a guardian whom a stroke has turned into a vegetable, and all those times when she blinks away, dropping into other lives so ghostly and surreal it's as if the story of her life bleeds into theirs.

Sixteen-year-old Quinn is a liar, but she isn’t a murderer. When her sleepy town of Boiling Springs, North Carolina is roused by the murder of a local teen, Quinn is thrust into a life of danger, disrupting her normally unnoticeable existence. Now romantically involved with Gilly, the best friend of the dead girl who also happens to be the sheriff’s daughter, Quinn must navigate a budding relationship in the midst of all the chaos surrounding Gilly and her friend group.

Ein Geheimbund, ein mysteriöser Fund im See und ein schockierendes Familiengeheimnis Sawyer ist der High Society, in deren Kreisen sich ihre neu gefundene Familie bewegt, nur sehr widerwillig beigetreten. Dabei hat sie nur ein Ziel: herauszufinden, wer ihr Vater ist. Doch dann wird sie mit ihrer Cousine Lily in den mysteriösen Debütantinnen-Geheimbund der White Gloves eingeführt.